Category Archives: Visual Arts
Art
Still plenty of art to see, including:
Hirona Matsuda’s senior study in Discarded Objects and Cast Metal Sculpture at the Simons Center for the Arts, 54 St. Philip St. It’s in Room 110 of the sculpture studio. This is a great place to nip to between performances at the Center. Big draw: weird and wonderful art [...]
Sign of the Times
New York Times reporter James Oestreich files two more reports for his ArtsBeat blog on the festival this afternoon. One’s a bemused rumination on the festival’s frenetic social calendar, which should satisfy Party Blogger Jonathan Sanchez (apparently Oestreich was at last night’s post-Wei/Bang party). In the second, he muses on the ubiquity of Philip Glass’ [...]
But wait, there’s more!
With the openings of Shen Wei Dance Arts and Major Bang in the rear-view mirror (I caught only the latter of those two last night; I’ll see Shen Wei tomorrow night), the Big Festival is plowing through its slate of yet-to-be-seen productions and turning them into continuing-through productions. On tonight’s docket: the opening of medEia, [...]
The little festival that could
The Big Festival’s opening premieres monopolized most of this Spoleto Buzz blogger’s attention and energy over the Memorial Day weekend, but I’ve not forgotten that there’s an entirely separate festival going on in Charleston right now. If the dissonant warbling in Faustus, the Last Night or nigh on three hours of Marxian, Teutonic spectacle in [...]
The medium is the message
Now this is interesting.
Yesterday the Lowbrow received the below image as an e-mail attachment from an anonymous artist. Remember my post yesterday about the City’s strange snipe fixation? Consider that earlier this week the Mayor’s office and local busybodies Keep Charleston Beautiful announced a new crackdown on graffiti. “Graffiti is not a question of creativity [...]
City hunting snipes during Spoleto?
It occurred to the Lowbrow recently to wonder how the City of Charleston will respond to the inevitable deluge of flyers, posters, and promotional handbills that – if past Spoletos are any measure – will soon be covering the peninsula. Ordinarily, you might expect they’d welcome the colorful, creative notices as a visual testament to [...]
Sleeping giants
There was a brief moment yesterday when I toyed with the idea of live-blogging Human Giant’s 24-hour MTV marathon, which started at noon on Friday and is scheduled to wrap up at, um, noon today. And then I tuned in and realized – as much as I’m looking forward to seeing HG’s show for Theatre [...]
Piccolo visual art receptions rescheduled for tonight
Noshers, freeloaders, and art lovers, lend me your ears: I’ve just learned that the opening reception for Piccolo’s two centerpiece visual arts exhibitions — from Fletcher Crossman and poster artist Elaine Berlin — have been moved from Sun. May 20, to tonight, Fri. May 18.
Originally scheduled for this Sunday 4-6 p.m. at the City Gallery [...]
Shell Game
When folks at the S.C. Aquarium last year hatched a plan to pair up artists, business sponsors, and 40 life-sized fiberglass models of loggerhead turtles for Piccolo Spoleto this year, they had in mind similar creature-themed public art installations around the world that fired their community’s imaginations — the “Cows on Parade” brand is probably [...]
Getting forensic on Spoleto 2007
The 31st Spoleto Festival USA is officially in the past tense. It’s now time to get forensic on the thing. But that’s less easy than it sounds. Part of the difficulty in summing up the festival after the fact lies in its nature; as Mayor Riley noted during the mid-festival tribute to founder Gian Carlo [...]